Description: Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
Description: Framed photo of Bubbles Pond, c. 1890. Carriage and horses with 2 or 3 passengers. Electric wires and poles visible. Margaret Spear (donor) had added note: "W. J. Walton, v. 92
Description: Copy 1 (for the library) of Paul Richardson's manuscript about Acadia National Park with particular emphasis on the carriage roads and bridges and their construction. Includes a map and pictures and an appendix with a description and technical information on all carriage road bridges. A bibliography and index are included. "A Gift from Paul S. and Dorothy L. Richardson to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society." Fifty copies were given to the Historical Society for distribution locally. [show more]
Description: History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Description: 008.103.3a - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of 3 copies) 008.103.3b - Aerial photograph of Pretty Marsh, Bartlett's Landing area. 008.103.3c - Plan (April 1958) showing property of John D. Rockefeller Jr. et. als. 008.103.3d - Topographic map, 1:24,000, Acadia National Park & Vicinity (1956) 008.103.3e - Mount Desert Zoning map, 1964 008.103.3f - Mount Desert Zoning map, 1964 008.103.3g - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of three copies) 008.103.3h - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of three copies) [show more]
Description: History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.